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Welcome to the blog and web page of Jess Thornton, author and private detective of La Crosse Wisconsin

Here I am, standing in front of my good friend Alexander Blackdeer's home on Indian Hill. Our latest adventure is written in the pages of  The Portrait , a truly riveting tale set, once again, in La Crosse Wisconsin! It is also available, as are all of my books, via ebook through Kindle, iBooks, and everywhere else fine digital books are sold.  Here is a link:  The Portrait on ebook I hope you enjoy this book- I'm just glad that Alexander, not to mention most of the Thornton family on south 20th street, lived through it! Jess
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Chapter 2 of A Western Saga by Jess Thornton

1900 Chicago was a very far cry from the world of territorial Oklahoma indeed!   Rising upwards and in motley congestion on the banks of lake Michigan, it was a crowded, smelly, yet amazing place.   Alexander French just thought of it as home, and wouldn’t have dreamt of living anywhere else.   He worked for Swift and Company, who ran their stockyards on the south side of the city, along with Armour and others.   But he rarely even visited those stockyards, which were horrid abattoirs   of animal killing; hog, beef, and sheep.   He concentrated on numbers, and on profits from those animals, and had a fashionable office downtown, in the first high-rise building in the world- The Home Insurance Building.   It had an amazing 10 stories of height, and he had his office on the top floor! Still a young man, he lived on the fashionable Gold Coast on Chicago’s near north side, in a beautiful stone row house of large proportions.   A dand...
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